New guidance nudges Claude to weigh the real cost before spawning a subagent
A new gate can enable, per model, a block of guidance text shown or injected to Claude about when it's worth delegating work to a subagent versus handling it directly. The text includes lines like "A fresh agent costs more than it looks," discussing the tradeoffs of spawning agents.
This is meant to make Claude more judicious about creating subagents, weighing their overhead against just doing the work inline, which could reduce unnecessary agent spawning when it isn't worth the cost.
tengu_lucky_cerf Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.271: not a boolean we can read
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
tengu_lucky_cerf_text Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.271: not a boolean we can read
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.271. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
Nothing has been read yet about how the tengu_lucky_cerf or tengu_lucky_cerf_text gates are currently set for this site's account, so no…
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